Chandigarh, November 11, 2021 (Yes Punjab News)
Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia today while condemning chief minister Charanjit Channi for making false allegations against him, challenged him to give one proof of any wrongdoing done by him in any drug related case even as he stated the Congress government was now trying to frame him in a new case.
Mr Bikram Majithia was addressing a press conference here along with members of the SAD legislative wing including its leader Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, all of whom also condemned the chief minister for making indecent and derogatory remarks against Mr Majithia.
Mr Majtihia also highlighted how the Congress government had become frustrated that no case could be made out against him in any of the earlier NDPS cases in which they were trying to frame him because the cases had been decided three years back. “This is why the chief minister took the route of leveling false allegations against me. I want to make it clear that I will not be intimidated by such tactics.
He also made it clear that he had only raised the sentiments of the people in the special session and that he did not have any ill will against Mr Charanjit Channi. “In fact Mr Channi has been taking me along to plead the case of his brother Manmohan Singh before then Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal when his brother’s name had cropped up in the city centre scam”.
The SAD leader along with the party legislators also highlighted how senior Congress leaders including Brahm Mohindra, Tript Rajinder Bajwa and Pargat Singh accepted that the chief minister had used derogatory language against him in the Speaker’s chamber. “ However the team around the chief minister including the likes of Kuldeep Zira who even threatened Akali legislator Pawan Tinu that he would come to his home and beat him, did not allow the CM to apologize for his conduct”.
Speaking about the 2013 contract farming act which was passed during the erstwhile SAD-BJP government, Mr Majithia said Mrs Navjot Kaur Sidhu had supported the Act as a chief parliamentary secretary in the government and that it had been passed unanimously.
Meanwhile the SAD legislature party condemned the Congress government for reducing the assembly session to a mere ‘jumla’. Party legislators led by Sharanjit Dhillon said the Congress party had indulged in an eye wash by passing resolutions on the extension of BSF jurisdiction in Punjab as well as the farm laws.
They said if the government was serious about the two issues it could have passed a notification making both central decisions redundant. Similarly the legislators said the government had gone in for a Bill on the PPAs despite knowing that even the show cause notice issued by the private thermal plants to cancel them had been stayed by a central Tribunal.
The legislators also highlighted how the chief minister has announced subsidies worth Rs 15,000 crore when the State owed the State utility Rs 7,000 crore already. They also disclosed how the government had charged consumers to the tune of Rs 11 per unit for more than four and a half years besides a tax of Rs 1.22 per unit and had now gone in for a reduction of Rs 3 per unit for one bill cycle of two months only.
They also highlighted how the real issues of farmers including complete loan waiver of Rs 90,000 crore, Rs ten lakh compensation to farm suicide victim families, Rs 50 lakh compensation to Kisan Andolan martyrs, Rs 50,000 per acre compensation to cotton growers whose crop had been destroyed and stopping black marketing of DAP had not been taken up for discussion. They said the government also failed to take up the issue of ‘ghar ghar naukari’, unemployment allowance to youth and releasing Rs 1,800 crore scholarships due to SC students in the special session.
Other legislators present on the occasion included Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Lakhbir Singh Lodhinangal, NK Sharma, Gurpartap Singh Wadala, Pawan Kumar Tinu, Manpreet Singh Ayali,Harinderpal Chandumajra, Kanwarjit Singh Barkandi, Baldev Singh Khaira and Dr Sukhwinder Sukhi.
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